Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 72

But when Theseus heard of robbers and monsters, he pricked up his ears, and was so much the more eager to take the road along which they were to be met with.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: hear, prick up, be, take, meet · To what, where: ears, road, roads

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 pricked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pricked	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 robbers	case
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 monsters	cc
8	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 robbers	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pricked	nsubj
11	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 pricked	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ears	nmod:poss
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pricked	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eager	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eager	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eager	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 eager	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 eager	advmod
22	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pricked	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 eager	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 road	det
26	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	along	along	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 met	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 met	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 met	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	33 met	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 met	aux:pass
33	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 road	acl:relcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	33 met	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pricked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Theseus		of robbers and monsters	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of robber=Stimulus
2	prick up	past	Theseus	Theseus's ears		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient
3	is	past	Theseus not said here		eager property	tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	the road		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
5	meet	past · passive	Theseus not said here	roads = road	along the road	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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